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Adamsville, Florida

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Wildwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32163. The Survey maps it on the Wildwood quadrangle.

Adamsville within Sumter County

Then and now

1893 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Adamsville, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Adamsville, surveyed 1893

Compare 1893 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Adamsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 314 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use21
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Debris and open burning10
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBLUE STREAK/0645
20 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service60/HIGHWAY FIRE/0889
19 July 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 July 1997Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 July 1992Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 June 2007Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Service60/PANHEAD FIRE/0693

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Adamsville: 7 producers, 2 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Calcium, Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bedrock Resources - C470 MineSandProducer
Dixie LimeplantCalciumProducer
Dixie Lime & Stone Co.(Coleman #2)Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Dixie Lime and Stone Co. - Central MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
M.J. Stavola - Sumterville MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Aglime PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dix-FilStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sumter Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sumterville Lime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Sumter County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Orange Home2.4 miles14
Coleman2.6 miles19
Monarch2.9 miles19
Bamboo3.3 miles14
Middleton3.6 miles15
Sumterville4.4 miles15
Wildwood4.6 miles19
Lake Panasoffkee5.0 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on AdamsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4680532The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294645. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.